2. (colloquial).—To succeed; to achieve. Cf., Go down.

1866. Public Opinion, 13 Jan., p. 51, c. 1. His London-street

railway scheme didn’t go.

1870. H. D. Traill, ‘On the Watch.’ Sat. Songs, p. 22. Eh, waddyer

say? Don’t it go? Ho, yes! my right honnerble friend. It’s go and

go over the left, it’s go with a hook at the end.

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] · 第 224 / 517 题